In the years 2005 and 2008, Time Magazine placed The Dalai Lama on its list of the world's 100 most influential people. While the 2008 summary was written by Deepak Chopra, [3] the magazine’s April 18, 2005 article on the Dalai Lama called He Belongs to the World, was written by actor Richard Gere, a long timeBuddhist and supporter of the Dalai Lama. Gere sums it up …[Emphasis Added]

You can say that again! The Dalai Lama certainly has wide appeal to the man on the street.. Everyone seems caught up in the spell. He comes across as extremely tolerant and compassionate… A man of peace and a human rights activist. He relates passages relevant to his message from the Sermon on the Mount. What’s not to love?

On April 16, 2004, CBC News Online said

“Since he arrived in Canada this weekend, people can't seem to get enough of the smiling monk with the rock star appeal, and it's no secret why. Behind that grin is one of the most influential voices in the world… When he's in the States, this NobelPeace Prize winner gets the star treatment. Presidents and celebrities line up to get a private audience and a picture. Tibet's exiled spiritual and temporal leader has become an icon. His message of peace and happiness is more self-help than religion, and that is turning his books into bestsellers and turning him into a celebrity.” [5]

“…appearance in New York's Central Park earlier in August drew a crowd of 40,000 people, compared to 5,000 in a visit he made there in 1991.

One can certainly see why. Besides his constant message of peace and interfaith co-operation, The almost always smiling Dalai Lama has a very appealing side and a legendary sense of humour. Ron Gluckman, a reporter who spent three weeks with the Dalai Lama in 1996, tells of a very human side of the man considered a spiritual leader by millions.. He is an

“incorrigible tinkerer” who was delighted at the discovery of Super Glue.. and “if the schedule allows, he may hide away at his work bench to fiddle with some broken gadget”. He once “amazed and annoyed elders by repairing Tibet's three cars, the legacy of a previous incarnation, and then secretly taking one for a spin”. His sense of humour comes to the fore when he tells why he has two robes.. "I have to have two… even the Dalai Lama does laundry." And referring to his rounded shape, jokes “I think I might be pregnant". [6]

The late Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Robert Runcie in 1981, 1984 & 1988, Archbishop Carey in 1993 & 1999 and Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams on the 23rd of May 2008. Most of these visits took place at Lambeth Palace. [7]

In March 2008 U.S. House Speak Nancy Pelosi and nine other members of the US congress, including senior Republican lawmaker Jim Sensenbrenner Jr., went to Dharamshala and met with the Dalai Lama. Describing Dalai Lama as “the embodiment of non violence”, Ms Pelosi and The US Congressional delegates denounced Beijing’s accusation that Dalai Lama was responsible for “masterminding” the protests across Tibet. [8]

The honours bestowed on the Dalai Lama have come from all over the place, including some very unexpected quarters….

“He has been given awards from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the New York Lawyer's Alliance, the New YorkTemple of Understanding, the U.N. Environmental Program, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the World Management Council, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the Research Institute of America, among others. He has been made an "honorary citizen" of Houston, Texas and Wheaton, Illinois. In 1979 the mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles presented him with the keys to both cities. And Jerusalem's Hebrew University made him an "Honorary Fellow" on March 20, 1994”. [9a] [Mikhail Gorbachev was a Roosevelt Institute laureate in 1990.]

But perhaps most interestingly the “The Simon Wiesenthal Peace Award” was given him in 1996.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center was named after Simon Wiesenthal, the famed ‘Nazihunter’, who survived several concentration camps, then spent his life bringing Naziwar criminals to justice and searing the Holocaust into the conscience of the world.

The Dissenting Voices.. Two Issues
However, a few voices have been raised which question the popular image of this ‘man of peace’. One of the issues raised is in regard to a couple of the Dalai Lama’s extremely questionable human connections, which have been documented below. However, while these matters do little but make him quite a hypocrite, it is the second issue.. his belief in the Maitreya and his and teaching of the Kalachakra-Tantra that concern us here. It is those that make him an extremely dangerous man.

When the Dalai Lama was awarded “The Simon Wiesenthal Peace Award” in 1996 (above), Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the center said

It was a very special event, We had such a turnout, we had to keep people outside. [11]

However the Homepage of the Government of Tibet in Exile has an extremely thought-provoking photograph of the XIV Dalai Lama with several other people, two of whom are Germans… Heinrich Harrer and Bruno Beger. [12]

In his younger days Harrer was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA, storm troopers) the infamous "brownshirts" that functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP – the GermanNazi party, and were illegal in Austria at the time. They played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s.

When Austria was annexed by the German regime in March 1938, Harrer joined the SS where he held the rank of Oberscharführer (Sergeant). He also joined the Nazi party that same year and was photographed with Adolf Hitler after the first ascent of the Eige.

According to Stern's report Harrer was quoted as saying,

"It was an estimable reward for us to meet and talk with the Fuehrer. We scaled the northern slope of Eiger, crossed the summit and reached the place wherein the Fuehrer lived." [16]

Harrer was detained by British colonial authorities as an enemy alien, but escaped for good in 1944 after several failed attempts, Making their way to Tibet, Harrer and Aufschnaiter entered Lhasa in February 1946, where he would remain for almost seven years and become a friend of the young Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso. Although there is no evidence that Harrer was personally guilty of ‘War Crimes’ or of any participation in Hitler’s ‘final solution’, the question remains.. How many of the Nazis were ‘innocent’?

Chris Wiley’s article Utopia on the Roof of the World, published in the fall 2007 issue of Cabinet Magazine (A Quarterly Magazine of Art & Culture) says [Emphasis Added]

“… those stirred to action by the Shambhalamyth were members of the Nazi party… in particular, those working under Reichshrer Heinrich Himmler in a branch of the SS called the Ahnenerbe, which served as the organization’s "Ancestral Heritage" office. The Ahnenerbe was Himmler’s pet project, established to trace the heritage of the "master race" back to its origins. It was to this end that, in 1938, five SS officers were sent on an expedition to Tibet.

The Ahnenerb’s "scientific" endeavors were colored by Himmler’s library of bizarre beliefs, which ranged from the pseudoscientific (he was an advocate of Hans Hörbiger’s World Ice Theory, which posited that the universe is shaped by the continual battle between fire and ice), to the merely egomaniacal (he was convinced that he was the reincarnation of the tenth-century Saxon king Henry the Fowler, and organized expeditions to prove this). As a result, the Ahnenerbe was staffed by an assortment of cranks, amateurs, and, in the case of Karl Maria Wiligut, often referred to as "Himmler’s Rasputin," the clinically insane. This made for a combustible mix of occultbelief and all manner of contemporary pseudoscience. And so it was that the Shambhalamyth, filtered through Theosophy, came to meet phrenology and physiognomy on the Tibetan plateau.

The main players in the SS expedition were Ernst Schäfer, a famous explorer and zoologist who served as the expedition’s leader, and Bruno Berger, who served as the team’s anthropologist. Unlike many in the Ahnenerbe, Schafer was a respected scientist, and it remains unclear whether his allegiance to the SS was ideological or, as he later claimed, merely opportunistic. Berger’s alliances were slightly more clear-cut. During his time on the "Roof of the World," he measured the heads of Tibetans with menacing calipers that pinched and prodded, and made physiognomic facial casts out of torturously slow-drying plaster, all in hopes of finding traces of the master race. Berger would later be involved in gathering anatomical specimens from among the prisoners in Auschwitz, in preparation for a never-realized expedition to the Caucasus with Schäfer's then-newly established Sven Hedin Institute for Inner Asian Research”. [18]

In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938 journey to Tibet, helped the Race and Settlement Office of the SS identify Jews and helped locate subjects needed for a skeleton collection to help educate on the identification of Jewish peoples.

Beger claimed that he was unaware the Auschwitz prisoners he measured were to be killed. While two others indicted in the trial were released, Beger was convicted on April 6, 1971, and sentenced to three years in prison for being an accomplice in the murder of 86 Jews. Upon appeal however, his sentence was reduced to three years of probation.

Additionally….

The authors of Shadow of the Dalai Lama write that the Dalai Lama met at least three times over the years with his “friend” Miguel Serrano, and five times with Shoko Asahara.

Asahara was leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which blended Hindu and Buddhistspirituality with the book of Revelation and the writings of Nostradamus. He claimed to be a reincarnation of the HindugodShiva, and promised to lead his followers to salvation when impending Armageddon arrived. Apparently the CIA had once investigated the group for trying to acquire a nuclear capability. He has been convicted of masterminding the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and several other crimes, and has been sentenced to death. His legal team appealed the sentence, but the appeal has been declined, and he is currently awaiting execution. 11 other members of his cult have also been sentenced to death. [20]

In 1992, the Dalai Lama visited Chile, where he was greeted at the airport by another Nazifriend, Miguel Serrano. Serrano, while functioning as a diplomat for the Chilean government, also served as the head of the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) of Chile, and associated with old Nazis who had fed to South America, including Otto Skorzeny, the SS officer who organized the notorious “Ratline,” smuggling Naziwar criminals out of Germany, many into South America. Serrano had numerous meetings with the Dalai Lama. [21]

In other words the Aryans were image bearers of the Godhead, and the Jews who conspired against them, worshippers of “an evilinferior godlet” that spawned “primitive hominids”. Adolf Hitler was an avatar who battled against these demons.

In An Interview With Miguel Serrano, “Esoteric Hitlerist” he says [Emphasis Added]

"Although those with special affiliation may actually be able to go there through their karmic connection, nevertheless it is not a physical place that we can actually find. We can only say that it is a pure land, a pure land in the human realm. And unless one has the merit and the actual karmic association, one cannot actually arrive there." [24]

At the August 16th, welcoming ceremony in Market Square Arena, not only did Governor Frank O'Bannon, Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, and actor Steven Seagalacknowledge the Dalai Lama as "Your Holiness", but four representatives from worldfaiths publicly displayed their support of the Dalai and his message. Greeting "His Holiness" were Dr. Clark Williamson from the ChristianTheological Seminary of Indianapolis; Iman Michael Saahir of the Nur-Allah Islamic Center; Sister Margaret Funk, a CatholicNun [Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana] and Executive Director of the Monastic Interfaith Dialogue; and Rabbi Dennis Sasso from the Beth-el Zedeck congregation.

While the main thrust of the event focused on the teachings of the Dalai and the actual initiation, many sideline attractions were held to compliment the Kalachakra. Tibetan films, musicians, and performers gave visiting followers ample venues to continue their Buddhistexperiences. One of the "benefit" shows was the MysticalArts of Tibet which featured monks performing the Dur-dak Gar-cham, also known as the Dance of the Skeleton Lords, a presentation to remind oneself of the fleeting nature of the world.

And yet Time Magazine’s series of photographs by photographer James Nachtwey portraying The Dalai Lama at Home at his private residence in exile in Dharamsala, India has one photograph (the fourth picture in the series) that shows the Dalai Lama reading from what appears to be a large old manuscript. The title, true to the magazine’s usual myopic views when it come to spiritual matters, reads… [Emphasis Added]

Additionally the Dalai Lama also believes in the Maitreya who will emerge as a world leader and teacher. The Maitreya was introduced to Americans decades ago by New Age leader Benjamin Crème. Crème is supposedly overshadowed by Maitreya for about 20 to 40 minutes at the beginning and end of every lecture he gives (except in one notable case where a single Christian woman, Michigan attorney Constance Cumbey, praying the Lord’s prayer was able to halt the manifestations.. One has to love the story). But I digress.. Maitreya…

ChurchUniversal and Triumphant believes he is the Ancient of Days spoken of in Daniel 7:9, 13 (Are they ever in for a shock) and that he and 144,000 souls of Light volunteered to keep the flame of Life on behalf of Earth'speople, until the children of God turned once again to serve the Mighty I AM Presence. The first to respond to his flame was Gautama Buddha, followed by Lord Maitreya and Jesus.

And, hopefully, every Christianknows the Bible, in 2 Corinthians 4:4, refers to Satan as the “God of this world” who has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel. John 12:31 refers to him as “the ruler of this world”, while Ephesians 2:2 speaks of “the prince of the power of the air”. 2 Timothy 2:26 says people have been “held captive by him to do his will”. And 1 John 5:19 tells us that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one”

According to tibet.com, the official website of the government of Tibet in exile, the Dalai Lama writes in his autobiography, Freedom in Exile,

"For hundreds of years now, it has been traditional for the Dalai Lama, and the Government, to consult Nechung during the New Year festivals. In addition, he might well be called upon at other times if either have specific queries. I myself have dealings with him several times a year This may sound far-fetched to twentieth-century western readers. Even some Tibetans, mostly those who consider themselves 'progressive', have misgivings about my continued use of this ancient method of intelligencegathering. But I do so for the simple reason that as I look back over the many occasions when I have asked questions of the oracle, on each one of them time has proved that his answer was correct. This is not to say that I rely solely on the oracle's advice. I do not. I seek his opinion in the same way as I seek the opinion of my Cabinet and just as 1 seek the opinion of my own conscience. I consider the gods to be my 'upper house'. The Kashag constitutes my lower house”.

He describes the garb worn by the Nechung on formal occasions, which “weighs more than seventy pounds and the medium, when not in trance, can hardly walk in it”. He then goes on to describe the ceremony which “begins with chanted invocations and prayers, accompanied by the urgings of horns, cymbals and drums”. Then… [All Emphasis Added]

“… as the first prayer cycle concludes and the second begins, his trance begins to deepen. … "Now the kuten's face transforms, becoming rather wild before puffing up to give him an altogether strange appearance, with bulging eyes and swollen cheeks. His breathing begins to shorten and he starts to hiss violently. Then, momentarily, his respiration stops. At this point the helmet is tied in place with a knot so tight that it would undoubtedly strangle the Kuten if something very real were not happening. The possession is now complete and the mortal frame of the medium expands visibly.

"Next, he leaps up with a start and, grabbing a ritual sword from one of his attendants, begins to dance with slow, dignified, yet somehow menacing, steps. He then comes in front of me and either prostrates fully or bows deeply from the waist until his helmet touches the ground before springing back up, the weight of his regalia counting for nothing. The volcanic energy of the deity can barely be contained within the earthly frailty of the kuten, who moves and gestures as if his body were made of rubber and driven by a coiled spring of enormous power”. [38]

Since one would certainly hope that any one who has carefully read this article would come to realize that the Dalai Lama is not exactly what he says he is and certainly not what he is popularly made out to be, therefore this is less a conclusion, than a summary.

The Dalai Lama has met with countless heads of state and religious leaders in numerous countries. He has great influence and commands a great deal of respect and has been given numerous awards including one from a holocaust survivor foundation.. Yet he counts among his friends and acquaintances at least two Nazis, one murderous Japanesecult leader already sentenced to death and a dangerous Chilean lunatic who claims to have been in astralcontact with Hitler.

He regularly consults the Nechung Oracle, in ceremonies during which the oracle goes into a trance and his face transforms and becomes “rather wild”, puffs up with “with bulging eyes and swollen cheeks” and he starts to hiss violently.

And who is this world leader and teacher?. Although he is called by different names there is little doubt that all traditions refer to the same being.. The one the Bible warned us about thousands of years ago.. The "Man of Sin," "the Son of Perdition," he that opposeth and exalteth himself," "the Wicked One whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth". In other words..

As respected as he is, not many people will believe that the Dalai Lama has anything to do with evil, yet we greatly fear that the Dalai Lama is one of those sent to smooth the way for “he whose coming is after the working of Satan". And what a great job he is doing..

“Due to their colorful and intricate nature, mandalas have attracted a great deal of interest. Although some can be openly explained, most are related to tantricdoctrines that are normally supposed to be kept secret. Consequently, many speculative and mistaken interpretations have circulated among people who viewed them simply as works of art or had no access to reliable explanations. Because the severe misunderstandings that can arise are more harmful than a partial lifting of secrecy, I have encouraged a greater openess in the display and accurate description of mandalas”. [40]

The following quotes are from a variety of sources [All Emphasis Added]

“All monks at Tibetan Buddhistmonasteries are required to learn how to construct mandalas as part of their training. The learning process is two-fold, including the memorization of texts that specify the names, lengths, and positions of the primary lines that define the basic structure of mandalas, as well as the manual techniques of drawing and pouring sand. These texts, however, do not describe every line, nor every detail of each mandala, but rather serve as mnemonic guides to the complete forms of mandalas that must be learned from the repeated practice of construction under the guidance of experiencedmonks”. [45]

The following quotes about the construction of a Mandala is from a site called artnetwork.com. [All Emphasis Added]

Footnote III
Victor and Victoria Trimondi are pen names used by Mariana and Herbert Röttgen. Their book [Shadow of the Dalai Lama] was published to wide acclaim in Germany in 1999 by the respected Patmos Group. The Shadow of the Dalai Lama hasn’t been published in English, but a translation can be found at the author’s website, trimondi.de. This scholarly work is highly critical of the Dalai Lama and the religious system he presides over. The authors were themselves once followers of the Dalai Lama. Herbert Röttgen was a personal friend of the Dalai Lama, he published a number of the Dalai Lama’sbooks, and he organized several symposia and major events for him. [47]

Footnote IVShambhala according to The People's Almanac #3 by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace

Tibetanreligious texts describe the physicalmakeup of the hidden land in detail. It is thought to look like and eight-petaled lotus blossom because it is made up of eight regions, each surrounded by a ring of mountains. In the center of the innermost ring lies Kalapa, the capital, and the king’s palace, which is composed of gold, diamonds, coral, and preciousgems. The capital is surrounded by mountains made of ice, which shine with a crystalline light. The technology of Shambhala is supposed to be highly advanced; the palace contains special skylights made of lenses which serve as high-powered telescopes to study extraterrestrial life, and for hundreds of years Shambhala’s inhabitants have been using aircraft and cars that shuttle through a network of underground tunnels. On the way to enlightenment, Shambhalans acquire such powers a clairvoyance, the ability to move at great speeds, and the ability to materialize and disappear at will.

Strange sightings in the area where Shambhala is thought to be seem to provide evidence of its existence. Tibetans believe that the land is guarded by beings with superhuman powers. In the early 1900s an article in an Indian newspaper, the Statesman, told of a British major who, camping in the Himalayas, saw a very tall, lightly clad man with long hair. Apparently, noticing that he was being watched, the man leaped down the vertical slope and disappeared. To the major’s astonishment, the Tibetans with whom he was camping showed no surprise at his story; they calmly explained that he had seen one of the snowmen who guard the sacred land.

A more detailed account of these "snowmen" guardians was given by Alexandra David-Neel, an explorer who spent 14 years in Tibet. While traveling through the Himalayas she saw a man moving with extraordinary speed and described him as follows:

"I could clearly see his perfectly calm impassive face and wide-open eyes with their gaze fixed on some invisible distant object situated somewhere high up in space. The man did not run. He seemed to life himself from the ground, proceeding by leaps. It looked as if he had been endowed with the elasticity of a ball, and rebounded each time his feet touched the ground. His steps had the regularity of a pendulum."

The steps of the initiation are extremely intricate and, without familiarity, the visualizations involved can be quite perplexing. But if, as a proper vessel, we take the vows with full sincerity and at least feel, with strong faith, that all the visualizations are actually occurring, we can be confident that we are receiving the empowerment. With this basis secured, the next step is seeking further instruction and then trying, as sincerely as possible, to travel the full path to enlightenment as presented in the Kalachakra Tantra”. [49]